BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[KSCfan]

For what its worth KOK i love bobby knight.  I have no problem with what he has done over the years, except maybe the choking one.  We all make mistakes, but i think that he demands respect from his players and that he is a great coach

[wordsmith]

Well.......please let the Keene love fest continue--hot stove baseball is often better than the real thing. I do agree that Keene has some very good young arms, under the tutelage of Coach T they should blossom.
Hockey thanks for the update, I can appreciate your love for your hometown team (Im exhibit A), hope Henry is healthy as he is a Saturday pitcher and makes the weekend match ups fun.
After the thaw yesterday field ONLY has about 4 feet of snow on it.

So, Im convinced..........Woody Hayes was too much for the old timers from Evil Empire and the mudpuppies from the land of lobster.........how about Bobby Knight?

Bob Knight. I actually saw him play high school basketball at Orrville, home of the Red Raiders. And of course had a National Champ with THE OHIO STATE. Those of you familiar with Boston TV Sports will know the name Bob Lobel...Bob attended Waynedale Hi right next door to Orrville and was a contemporary of Knight.

Bob Knight is another great coach, smart, great historian like Woody, arrogant to a fault, ran a squeaky clean program, not going to defend everything the man has or has not done, but I will mention 1 name and you can do the research if so inclined. Landon Turner.

Just one more thought KonK as you continue to question the icons from the 60's and 70's. Don't try to impose today's values upon individuals from the past, even the recent past. It does work and it is not accurate.

KSCFan,
[Chev could not agree more.  I remember players running sprints in the game at 5am till 6am when praticed started becuase they where late.  Or the time at practice when a certain catcher who shall remained nameless told a coach to shut up and he ran for three dates straight.

Good call on that one, dude would still be running unless one of his 'mates' hadn't told him have you told the coaches you were sorry? Had not dawned on him to say sorry....

Word

[keenONkeene]

Don't try to impose today's values upon individuals from the past, even the recent past. It does work and it is not accurate.
My point exactly-- this is why Coach Marty and Coach Ken are the coach of "the now and the future."
Now I do take exception to the "catcher" who called a coach stupid--but 3 days of running is not much of a punishment.  Can only imagine what Freewheelin' Flahaerty and Coach ECU would have done--OUCH!

[ecfaninri]

Konk
I think Holiwaty would have made him run too but more importantly probably would have come up with a comment to the "catcher" that he would have remembered for a long time. He may have said something like - "OK and your point is - what?"

You can't be at an institution ( or college for that matter) for 42 years, tick kids, players, other coaches, administrators, and parents off and still get talent to come... ala Hayes and/or Knight. They were successful and tough. Sure some kids are going to get away. Because they know that there are limited spots on a team. If a kid is used to starting and/staring in high school and sees that there are one or two kids ahead of him... they are going to go to a place they can play right away. Some kids may not want to sit and wait. At least when you have 80 + players trying out for a team like Eastern, he has a fine JV program to still play games against the likes of Avery Point, CCRI, Massasoit, etc. If some kids who excelled  in high school can take  the "humbling " of playing on a JV team for one of the best D3 programs in the country, they may get the chance down the road of playing varsity in time. At some point in time... a coach at any level is going to run into a kid that "got away" to another program. Why? maybe it is not the coach at all. Maybe ...just maybe its the school, the major, location, girlfriend, climate... You know ... I bet there are even kids who like 4 feet of snow.  Anyway, the bottom line is this. If a player wants to play - it is up to him to make every effort to play at a level where he can be a positive, productive member of the team. If he can do that, there is no way a coach will not use him. Because he wants to win too.

[kscer]

I just saw the Keene roster today. Wentworth gone? Any comments on Boden, he pitched well in HS. Did he show anything this fall? Also the Pelkey kid from Monadnock? Looks like they picked up some NH kids from good programs. Patnode should give them a good bat. This team looks good  I remember well when that certain catcher ran.

[wordsmith]

Question to TEE fans:

Does Chris Russell's name ring a bell. He played on the JV squad last year. Is he still at TEE or has he moved on?

He played high school ball at Monadnock Hi just south of Keene.

Thanks for any updates,

Word 8)

[ECSUalum]

Question to TEE fans:

Does Chris Russell's name ring a bell. He played on the JV squad last year. Is he still at TEE or has he moved on?

He played high school ball at Monadnock Hi just south of Keene.

Thanks for any updates,

Word 8)

Word, Correct he was JV status as of TEE 2008 roster, not on TEE 2009 roster.  No idea if he left ECSU or just decided he did not have a shot anymore.  Maybe Gilblair, or ecfaninri knows him.

[wordsmith]

I just saw the Keene roster today. Wentworth gone? Any comments on Boden, he pitched well in HS. Did he show anything this fall? Also the Pelkey kid from Monadnock? Looks like they picked up some NH kids from good programs. Patnode should give them a good bat. This team looks good  I remember well when that certain catcher ran.

Ryan Boden... my wife and I used to baby-sit Ryan when he was a year or so old. Great kid, great family. He was at Taylor University an NAIA school in Indiana and was scheduled to throw for the NECBL Rats last summer. Don't think he had but 6 or 7 appearances as he had arm problems.

Ryan first hurt his arm as a 12 year-old. He was on a Cal Ripoff team that included Patnode and Doyon, both on the current KSC roster; they ended up 3rd or 4th in the World Series that year.

If healthy....could be a big time addition.

Some day I'll tell you about losing my girlfriend in high school to some dweeby kid named....Dwight Yoakum...

Word

[dgilblair]

Question to TEE fans:

Does Chris Russell's name ring a bell. He played on the JV squad last year. Is he still at TEE or has he moved on?

He played high school ball at Monadnock Hi just south of Keene.

Thanks for any updates,

Word 8)

Word, Correct he was JV status as of TEE 2008 roster, not on TEE 2009 roster.  No idea if he left ECSU or just decided he did not have a shot anymore.  Maybe Gilblair, or ecfaninri knows him.

I asked and hes not on the team this year. Have no idea where he is off to. 

[Jcon8958]

This keene on keene guy is a moron in my eyes thats really all i have to say right now hahahah.

But umb practiced outside yesterday they looked very good then young pitchers are throwing well from what ive heard still looking 4 that #2 GUY ON Saturday

[ECSUalum]

Jcon8958,

Welcome back to THE LEC Board!!

[ECSUalum]

Sorry guys, this is for the ECSU fans out there.

Perhaps you already have heard this, but if you go to the D3 home page and under "Playoffs" heading, click on "Playoff History.  At leftside of table, column in red shows the years, click on 2004 D-III National Championships, then on the audio icon next to Game 12: ECSU/UW-Whitewater game.

This will play the +/-10 sec play by play clip of Dwight Wildman's walk off rocket home run to dead center at Appleton.

Pretty exciting to listen to!!!!

Wildman was amazing that Championship, but ECSU ultimately loses to George Fox University (Scott Hyde stymied the Warriors the game for the final National championship) ( unfortunately, also some unerned runs given up)

Also unbelievable he did not get a MiLB contract

[EasternCtFan]

ECSUalum, what was the scouting report you can offer on Wildman, and any idea why he didnt get that contract? What was he missing? His stats from ECSU were just gaudy, at the top of every record. His performance in that World Series alone wasn't enough to attract interest? Scouts can be weird.

[EasternCtFan]

Speaking about the d3 championships and some of the ECSU greats, here are there career world series stats..........

                    G        H         AB        HR     RBI      AVG         
Wildman      14      17        55         4       13      .309


                    W-L     IP              SO        ERA
Serfass         3-0     33 1/3        24        1.08
DiPietro         3-1     22 2/3        17        1.19

[mans007]

In response to the Wildman post.  He was a great competitor, true to ECSU form but the knock on him was that he was a poor or "questionable" wood bad hitter. I believe they missed the boat on a good player they could have rolled the dice with in the draft, even as a free pick up.